Six years after the referendum, the ‘Brexit’ negotiator believes it was based on the desire for national democracy
The Secretary of State for Brexit Opportunities, Jacob Rees Mogg, has presented a table of Community regulations still enshrined in UK law, coinciding with the sixth anniversary of a majority vote of Britons to leave the European Union. They are “more than 2,400” standards. The table will be refreshed quarterly to verify its gradual reduction.
They are regulations about the safety of aerosol generators or the rights of people with disabilities when traveling by air. The largest number, 570, concerns the Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Life, mainly because of fisheries policy. Rees-Mogg thanked the readers of ‘The Sun’ and ‘Sunday Express’ for their many letters pointing out annoying rules. “I hope the painting will give us the opportunity to face hundreds of problems. They may seem marginal,’ the minister told the House of Representatives, ‘but together they are the start of a revolution. Not in the French style of revolutions, with blood flowing through the streets and the terror of the guillotine, but in the British style, with marginal improvements, inch by inch…until the journey is completed.”
David Frost, Brexit chief negotiator, celebrated the Rees-Mogg initiative at a seminar on EU progress, organized by the network of academics UK in a changing Europe. Replacing European rules with others more adapted to the needs of the British economy and society will take a long time, he said.
Frost believes the decision six years ago was based on a desire to restore “national democracy.” “It is the beginning of a process of national renewal,” said the former minister. But after years of EU membership, the potential for a still incomplete Brexit is being delayed because, according to Frost, “our elite have lost the ability to set their own goals.” “It seems we have forgotten how to govern,” he says.
Simon McDonald, who was the most senior official in British diplomacy before his retirement at the initiative of Boris Johnson, pointed out in the debate on the United Kingdom’s role in international politics that the London government felt a dynamic and Ukraine, supplying weapons and training soldiers since before the invasion.
But in his view, the EU has sought a leading role on the continent and the UK government lacks sufficient “connection” with the community elite to bolster its role. What would? For Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan, the ambition is to pursue the balance of power diplomacy pursued by Minister Castlereagh at the turn of the 19th century.
“The illusion remains,” MacMillan said, “but I don’t think you can promote unity while litigating.” The consensus of the speakers on geopolitics after ‘Brexit’ is that the problems of the Irish Protocol can be solved, “but both sides think the other must give in,” said McDonald… Fabien Zuleeg, director of the Center for European Policy , in Brussels, warned that, in the new international situation, “‘Brexit’ is a minor problem for the EU.”
Source: La Verdad
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